jim is this true?

[Bobby Wong]

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/...79c814cd8.html

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Racist Nazi symbol found on North Charleston police flashlight; origin a mystery
By Andrew Knapp aknapp@postandcourier.com



After a white North Charleston officer was fired for hitting a handcuffed black man, a search of his car revealed a police-issued flashlight emblazoned with a racist Nazi symbol and the words "The Wig Splitter."

Officer Leroy Hair denied ownership of the flashlight and any knowledge of its origin. But he suggests in a new lawsuit that it had been used by other officers to beat minority suspects.

Hair eventually was arrested and accused of using excessive force against the man in 2016, but a judge acquitted him at a trial that bore no mention of the flashlight. He was never accused of using the flashlight, though another officer had used one to hit the unruly man earlier in the confrontation.

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Flashlights typically are assigned to patrol cruisers, which in turn are assigned to officers. They are not directly issued to officers, attorneys said. The flashlight belonged in a car that wasn't Hair's.

The Nazi etchings, the lawsuit added, "indicated its use as a weapon to injure minority suspects in the head."

In the lawsuit, Hair said he believed the flashlight was placed in his cruiser shortly before his firing amid a public push for accountability in the case and in others.

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A rendering in a lawsuit depicts an etching of the Nazi "SS" symbol found on a North Charleston police flashlight. The suit alleged that the term "The Wig Splitter" referred to the flashlight's use in beating minority suspects.

The flashlight, Peper said, had been assigned to a cruiser used by at least two other officers over a decade. No information indicated who might have actually been using it, he said.

Pinning the flashlight on Hair, his attorney said, deflected attention from the possibility that other officers might have used it against Terry. The existence of "The Wig Splitter," the lawsuit added, "corroborates the inherent truth ... of racial discrimination" in the police force.

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